Church, state and colonialism in southeastern Congo, 1890-1962
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Church and State in Southeastern Congo -- Where Was the Secular Administration? -- The Geographical Setting -- Methodology -- Chapter Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Pre-colonial Pol...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Springer International Publishing AG
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Loffman, Reuben A., Church, state and colonialism in southeastern Congo, 1890-1962; Morier-Genoud, Éric, Catholicism and the making of politics in central Mozambique, 1940-1986] (2020) (Carney, J. J.)
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| Series/Journal: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Church and state-History
B History 1890-1962 B Belgium B Church and state-Congo (Democratic Republic)-History B Colonialism B Holy See (motif) B Electronic books B Democratic Republic (Südost) B Belgisch-Kongo B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Church and State in Southeastern Congo -- Where Was the Secular Administration? -- The Geographical Setting -- Methodology -- Chapter Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Pre-colonial Politics in Kongolo to 1890 -- The Equatorial African Political Tradition -- The Luba: History, Myth and Politics -- The Luba and the Songye -- Invaders from the East -- The Hêmbá -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Halting Development of Catholic Power in Kongolo, 1891-1917 -- The White Fathers' Unstable Foothold in Sola -- African Agency and the Patterning of the Spiritan Advance -- Kongolo as Peripheral to the Belgian Administration -- Colonial Reimaginings of Chieftainship in Early Colonial Kongolo -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Failure of 'Great' Chieftainships and the Consolidation of Catholic Authority, 1918-1932 -- Towards a Stronger Version of Indirect Rule? -- Neo-Traditionalism and Bùki's 'Great' Chieftainship -- The Extension of Catholic Authority -- Conclusion -- 'Our Population Is Excessively Independent' -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Missionaries and the Formation of Colonial Chieftainship, 1933-1939 -- Cotton and the Halting Construction of Colonial Statehood in Eastern Kongolo -- Belgium's New Chiefs in Eastern Kongolo -- Kongolo's New Chiefs and a New Witch-Finding Movement -- Gender, Finance and the Social Politics of Witch-Finding -- The Sleeping Sickness Factor -- A Comparative Perspective: Witchcraft in the Bùki Chieftainship -- Mission Intrusion and Kibangile -- Mission Pressure, Administrative Delay and the Ending of Kibangile -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 A Marriage of Convenience: Church and State in the Late Colonial Period, 1940-1956 -- Mission Education and the Late Colonial State. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-17380-7 |
